Bücher von Queen's University

A global history of historical writing and thought from the ancient world to the present. This is a definitive guide to human efforts to recover, understand and represent the past. Numerous extracts and illustrations demonstrate the different forms that historical consciousness has taken and history's development into a modern discipline.

Using an innovative blend of political theory, international law, and studies on the sociological and geo-political foundations of minority rights, this landmark publication will set the debate on the likely future of the international politics of diversity.

This volume concludes Professor Lock's magisterial biography of Edmund Burke, one of the most influential political philosophers in the Western tradition. Covering the most interesting years of Burke's life, the leading themes are India and the French Revolution. Burke was a key figure in shaping long-term British attitudes to both.

The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes debunks the standard view of Hobbes as a royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640s and 1650s. Culminating with an exploration of Hobbes's surprising sympathies with Cromwell, Jeffrey Collins offers a new interpretation of the religious significance of the English Revolution.

Henry Wilson was the only British field marshal ever to die in action, killed on his own doorstep in 1922 by two IRA men. He was a maverick Irishman, at the centre of affairs during the First World War years and after, recording everything in his diary. This is the modern biography of this controversial and misunderstood figure.

A concise guide to asset pricing, this text assumes a knowledge of graduate level microeconomics. It explores the fundamental ideas underlying competitive financial asset pricing models with synthetic information.